UNREST IN INDIA
THE AMRITSAR" SITUATION PUNISHMENT OF AKALIS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) DELHI, October 4. The Amritsar position remains unchanged. An average of eighty Akalis are arrested daily. The total is now over nine hundred. Special magistrates are trying and sentencing’ them in batches of twenty to fifty, inflating large fines and imprisonment up to tix months’ rigorous treatment. There are fewer Akalis now at Amritsar than since the struggle began. It is stated they returned to the villages to arouse their co-religionists to proceed to Gurukabagh and get arrested to embarrass the Government by filling the gaols, at which there is only limited accommodation. In the Punjab the Akali leaders have issued an injunction to their followers that since wheat-sowing began all Sikhs and sympathisers must faJsh the sowings of brethren who are either in gaol or awaiting their turn to be arrested.
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Southland Times, Issue 19657, 6 October 1922, Page 5
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149UNREST IN INDIA Southland Times, Issue 19657, 6 October 1922, Page 5
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